Anohni

As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful. ”

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power. ”

If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president. ”

The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy. ”

What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it. ”

I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work. ”

You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product. ”

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself. ”

People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know? ”

I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of. ”